• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Translation: Car dealers don’t make as much money from EV’s.

    Car sales is a racket anyway, the dealers make too much money, the car manufacturers make too much money, and with the prospect of a new technology that costs more they’ve realised that they can’t charge as much more, meaning they profit less.

    Price is not proportional to cost.

    The biggest crime is the villainisation of haggling. Price must be negotiable for a system to remain fair.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, hate haggling. Never know if it is actually a good deal, and tracking prices and deals is so unreliable compared other goods with the way those have historic price tracking recorded on sites like camelcamelcamel or keepa. Keeps consumers in the dark with only a broad idea of what isn’t a scam price and making the experience as exhausting as possible to extract money from them.

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        11 months ago

        If it’s cheaper than the list price, it’s at least a better deal.

    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Car sales is a racket anyway

      Correction

      Cars are a racket anyway

      EV cars are better than ICE cars, but the biggest problems with cars are so much bigger than the type of engine they use. As grateful as I am for EV cars being a thing sometimes they just feel like a distraction from solving the actual fundamental issues around transportation.